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NSA has been “SIGINT-enabling” router chips for a long time according to Snowden documents. Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570407 h
by oefrha 2y ago
NSA has been “SIGINT-enabling” router chips for a long time according to Snowden documents. Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570407
There’s also that famous photo of NSA “upgrading” Cisco routers, of course. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
- tastyfreeze 2y agoExactly. Remembering that our own NSA has intentionally compromised devices makes all of the "ban China" calls sound like jealousy.
- oefrha 2y agoMore like “we know we’re doing this, so they’re likely doing it as well”. Makes sense.